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  1. JLB

    Miss Price's Prep School - Linwood Road, Handsworth

    Does anyone recall a prep school run by a Miss Florence Price on the top floor of 11 Linwood Road? Aged 5, I attended this school circa 1945-46 before being transferred to Benson Road Infants in Winson Green. At Miss Price's, we wrote with slate pencils on wood-framed slates. I have lots of...
  2. JLB

    Dixon's Photographers

    Can anyone help me identify, as precisely as possible, when Dixon's Camera shop moved to Union Street from (I think) New Street in the 1960s? Many thanks, John Ball
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    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Shops
  3. JLB

    Smoking Restrictions on BCT Buses (and Trams)

    I need help. I'm trying to relive a bus and tram trip to Cannon Hill Park that I made as a child in 1942 with my Dad and my Nan. Dad was a heavy smoker - would we have needed to travel on the upper deck ('on top') so Dad could smoke? When were smoking restrictions introduced? I know we caught...
  4. JLB

    1937 Coronation - Street Decorations And Parties

    I recently found these photos taken in 1937 in celebration of the coronation of King George VI. They show Markby Road (Winson Green):
    • JLB
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    • 1937 coronation markby rd street party
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    • Forum: Old Photographs
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